Logorik, Subori, or Saburi, is a (critically) endangered language spoken in Eastern Sudan and Western Chad.
[Thelwall, Robin. 1978. Lexicostatistical Relations between Nubian, Daju and Dinka. In Études nubiennes: Colloque de Chantilly, 2-6 juillet 1975, 265-286. Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire.]
General information
It is a part of the Nilo-Saharan group and the subcategory of the Eastern Daju languages.
It is spoken by the
Subori people in the
Nuba Mountains
The Nuba Mountains ( ar, جبال النوبة), also referred to as the Nuba Hills, is an area located in South Kordofan, Sudan. The area is home to a group of indigenous ethnic groups known collectively as the Nuba peoples. In the Middle Ages, ...
and South Kordofan.
Meinhof claims, that there are hardly any similarities between this language and other Kordofan languages vocabulary-wise.
At the same time, the Logorik-speaking community is overwhelmingly bilingual; other dominating languages being, among others, Arabic, (due to the Arabic migration in the region).
This causes a high percentage of loanwords and grammatical borrowings (mostly Arabic) in the Logorik language.
Phonetics
Vowels
Consonants
*The labiodental "f" is quite rare and it usually appears in loanwords and other borrowings from foreign languages.
Also, it is worth mentioning, that the glottal stops, symbolized by (ʔ), are present in Logorik.
Tonality
Logorik is a tonal language, meaning there are high tones and falling tones.
When it comes to tones, the tone of a preceding syllable must be different from the one coming after it.
Grammar
Genus
There is no feminine genus in the Logorik language morphology-wise.
There are however six other classes and their plural form depends on the final position of the singular form.
Nouns
A plural form of a noun is created by adding an appropriate suffix.
Verbs
There are only perfective and imperfective conjugations documented.
Prefixes and suffixes play a very important role in signaling the context/tense, e.g. future tense is shown by the prefix and háŋ-; habitual activities by a suffix -cà.
References
External links
Subori basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
Critically endangered languages
Daju languages
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